In a story set in New York City at the height of the Covid pandemic, Chance Wentworth, having taken a DNA test on nothing more than a whim, is thoroughly shaken when he discovers he had actually been switched at birth in a Brooklyn hospital. Now, facing a lonely old age, he must set out in search of the family he never knew. Meanwhile, his best friend Brian, once one of New York's most successful photographers, is forced to deal with his own crisis in a devastating encounter with the new "cancel culture." As his reputation is ravaged by accusations of sexual harassment he learns who among his friends are truly loyal. On the verge of losing everything, he at last finds true love but is left wondering if it isn't already too late for happiness.